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@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Gotcha is a lightweight Gitea client with a reusable Rust core, a CLI, and a
 native iOS application. The iOS interface is UIKit/Swift; UniFFI exposes the
 Rust application logic to Swift.
 
+On the icon: git in a tea cup. it is obvious, isn't it?
+
+On the name: well, tea, we established that. there is something tea like called
+matcha. and this is git. so gotcha, because gitcha sounds dumb. Stop rolling
+your eyes.
+
 ## Workspace
 
 - `gotcha_gitea`: reusable asynchronous Gitea API client with the complete